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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 6/2015

01-06-2015 | From the Inside

Am I dead? A patient’s experience with delirium

Author: Julie Vavuris

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2015

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I am a clinical nurse in the Medical-Surgical ICU at University of California, San Francisco. I photographed this question which was written by one of my patients this year. The patient was a young woman on a spontaneous breathing trial, awakening from sedation with propofol. Her mother and I were attempting to communicate with her as she emerged from 2 days of sedation. The patient, recovering from stem cell transplant and severe graft versus host disease, had been ill for months, during which time her mother was her primary caregiver. …
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Title
Am I dead? A patient’s experience with delirium
Author
Julie Vavuris
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2015
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3569-0

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